Review-Journal: What was the biggest factor in your decision to sign on with this new project? Morton and Badain talked with the Review-Journal about the project, which will break ground next year and is expected to be ready to open in 2026 (the interview has been edited for brevity and clarity): The $3 billion project - $1 billion of which is dedicated to the arena - will be built on about 25 acres at Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road, right next to Interstate 15 and 1½ miles south of Interstate 215. They’re Randy Morton, former co-CEO of the Foley Entertainment Group and a four-decade hospitality executive with experience as president and chief operating officer of Bellagio, and Marc Badain, the longtime former president of the Raiders, who helped relocate the team to Las Vegas from Oakland and guided construction of the $2 billion, 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium. Last week, Tim Leiweke and partner Irving Azoff of the Los Angeles-based Oak View Group named the executives that will drive development of the 2,000-room OVG Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and its adjacent 20,000-seat NBA-ready arena.

(Erik Verduzco / Las Vegas Review-Journal)ĭetails have emerged on Southern Nevada’s next big casino-resort project which will include a major sports and entertainment arena. Randy Morton, executive of the Oak View Group, poses for a portrait in front of the proposed site for a new casino and arena project at the intersection of Blue Diamond Road and and Las Vegas Boulevard South in Las Vegas, Thursday, June 23, 2022.

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